Frank Bruno Quotes

I think you always have regrets.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.

I remember having crushes and longings, but there were all these missed opportunities or things that seemed like such a big deal, but you really don't understand what the other person is going through.

I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault.

Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.

Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

I also feel like I've done plenty of wrong things. I'm not innocent here, and I'm certainly not going to be righteous about that.

I'm trying to think of what I'm ashamed of. But, damn, I don't really have any shame.

I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?

I wish I had a nickel for every time I fell and blamed someone else. I'd give a ton of money to the ones I've hurt.

He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.

Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.

It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly and delightful world derive from our apologising for those things which we ought not to apologise for, and failing to apologise for those things for which apology is necessary.

I've sort of prided myself on playing characters with conscience. The first way I go about creating a character is looking at that area of conscience. What have they done, and what has it cost.

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.

Although you feel relief now, this is likely to be the source of many sleepless nights for you. You will lie awake, look upon your heart, and find it unlovely. You will be certain that (...) you are the greatest of monsters. This is a good thing; although you may forgive yourself, you must never come to think that your actions were in any way justifiable. But- (...) Being a sane, honorable human being is not always comfortable.

Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.